CAPACITY RISK
Owned Capacity vs Brokered Capacity
When capacity tightens, a broker goes shopping and your rate moves with the market. TCG owns the equipment and employs the drivers running your recurring lanes, so that capacity is committed before the week starts.
What Ownership Changes
When Capacity Tightens, Ownership Is the Difference
01
Brokered-Only Freight Gets Repriced
When the spot market tightens, a broker has to go find a truck at whatever the market is asking. If you are 100 percent brokered, your cost moves with the market and your service moves with whoever answered.
02
Owned Equipment Does Not Bid
A tractor TCG owns and a driver TCG employs are not competing for your load on a spot board. That capacity is committed before the week starts.
03
Regulation Lands on the Operator
When rules change around hiring, hours, equipment or maintenance, an owned fleet absorbs it directly because TCG controls all four. A brokered network absorbs it one carrier at a time, unevenly.
04
The Fleet Was Built Deliberately
TCG's owned capacity came from acquiring and keeping operating companies with their own equipment and crews — ITS, Walt's Drive-A-Way, Sky, CTS, COPP and DLI — rather than renting capacity as needed.
05
Brokerage Still Earns Its Place
Owned capacity is not the answer to everything, and TCG does not pretend otherwise. Surges, one-off lanes and equipment we do not run go to vetted carriers under the same agreement.
Where We Operate
One Network, Three Countries
TCG operates across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with a strong presence in the Midwest, Southeast, core U.S. distribution corridors, and cross-border markets.
50
Operating Locations
4,000
People
$700M
Annual Revenue
3
Countries
On a Tight Week
What Happens When the Market Turns
01
Committed Lanes Run
Your recurring lanes are already assigned to owned equipment and known crews. A tightening spot market does not touch them.
Owned Fleet
Dedicated
02
Overflow Gets Triaged
Volume above the committed plan gets sequenced by what matters to you — the delivery window, the receiver, the cost of being late.
Priority Review
Lane Sequencing
03
Brokerage Absorbs the Peak
What the fleet cannot take goes to vetted carriers, and you are told which loads those are rather than finding out later.
Carrier Network
Surge Capacity
Owned first is a sequence, not a slogan.
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Four Questions About Capacity
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What share of my freight moves on equipment you own?
Who employs the drivers running my recurring lanes?
What happened to my rates the last time the market tightened?
Will you tell me which loads were brokered and which were not?
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